Eastern Africa & Indian Ocean – Items
Coralstone, Malé, 1663, Other
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APA
R. Michael Feener, ., & Multia Zahara, . (n.d.). Coralstone, Malé, 1663, Other (1–), CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/5565
Chicago
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. n.d. “Coralstone, Malé, 1663, Other.”, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/5565
MLA
R. Michael Feener, and Multia Zahara. Coralstone, Malé, 1663, Other, CallFront, accessed July 26, 2026, https://callfront.inha.fr/s/callfront/item/5565
Item descriptor
- Copyrights Holder
- CallFront
- License
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Entry ID
- Maldives_MF_MZ_22
- Date
- 1074 H.
- 1663
- Localization Exactitude Degree
- Exact
- Place of Production
- Malé, Kaafu, Maldives
- Present Location
- Preserved in Hukuru Miskiyy, Malé, Kaafu Atoll, Maldives
- Website Link
- https://arches.maritimeasiaheritage.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/report/fae62cfc-412d-44cb-8c60-7ea746b83747
- Language
- Arabic
- Type of text
- Funerary text
- Nature of the Text
- Reference for Quranic verses
- Remarks (General Identification)
- One of a pair of coralstone slab grave markers from the cemetery surrounding the Hukuru Miskiyy in Male’ (MAHS-MDV-KFA-MLE-S-002-F-0043). The front face of the headstone bears in Arabic inscription in eight lines of framed text.
- Type of Object
- cenotaph/tombstone
- Writing Surface
- stone\type of stone\coral stone
- Shape (Epigraphy)
- rectangular
- Size (of the object)
- 125 x 55 x 13 cm
- Layout (Epigraphy & Objects)
- 8 lines
- Technique
- engraved
- Instrument
- chisel
- Remarks (Support)
- Coralstone, Male’
- Bibliography
- R. Michael Feener (Ed.), The Maritime Asia Heritage Survey Online Archive: https://maritimeasiaheritage.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp
Script descriptor
See the lexicon
General Script Characteristics
- Presence of Elongation
- occasional
- Ligature
- Conventional - curvilinear
- Shading / Contrast
- non-nuanced strokes
Letter Morphology
- Point
- inclined square
Ascenders
Descenders
- wāw descenders
- wāw - crescent tail
- mīm descenders
- mīm - long curvilinear tail
- nūn sīn shīn sādḍād yā’ lām and qāf descenders
- nūn, sīn/shīn, sād/ḍād, yā', lām, qāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- yā’ al-rāji’ah descenders
- backward horizontal stroke
horizontals
- bāʾ tāʾ thāʾ fāʾ kāf horizontals
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - curvilinear flattened bowl
- bāʾ, tāʾ, thāʾ, fāʾ, kāf - short curvilinear flattened bowl
denticles
- sīn shīn denticles
- rounded base denticles
counters
- hā' counters
- initial / medial rounded double eyed (wajh al-hirr)
- initial / medial double-eyed top and bottom (mulawwazah)
- isolated one-eyed loop with downward curving stems
- fā' qāf wāw counters
- rounded head needle point eye
- medial 'ain ghayn counters
- compact inverted triangle / open or closed eye
vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa kasra vocalization and diacritics
- fatḥa, kasra - dot